chloride has definitions from the field of chemistry
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[ noun ] (chemistry) any compound containing a chlorine atom

Used in print

(Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)

In Chicago , some time ago , Mr._H. , age 27 , a diabetic since he was six , stopped using insulin because he had bought a `` magic spike '' - a glass tube about the size of a pencil filled with barium chloride worth a small fraction of a cent - sold by the Vrilium_Company of Chicago for $ 306 as a cure-all .

(Francis J. Johnston and John E. Willard, "The...)

It should be possible to prepare very pure chlorine by oxidation of inorganic chlorides on a vacuum system followed by multiple distillation of the liquid .

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[ noun ] (chemistry) any salt of hydrochloric acid (containing the chloride ion)

Related terms

halide k-lor

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